2023: TIME TO THRIVE
2022 has been a challenging year for many business, especially those in a high growth phase where the challenges of supply chain, access to labour and skills and emerging technology has pushed many owners to the limit testing their personal resilience.
However, it's also set a platform from which many businesses will be able to springboard from in 2023. Many businesses have realised that they can adapt and "pivot" quickly to address changing business conditions and can use this to stay ahead of the game.
The last 3 years of disruption and uncertainty have caused issues for many but have also created some amazing opportunities, for example:
■ The move to digital service delivery means that its even more feasible to service a global audience; ■ The Pandemic has forced some of your competitors out of the market and will create opportunities for you to acquire smaller businesses and extend your reach or product offering; ■ Baby Boomers are leaving the workforce creating a global skills shortage (predicted by Boston Consulting in 2013) and making it even more important to focus on attraction and retention strategies. This can be a competitive advantage. ■ The challenges of reduced access to labour have meant that some businesses have been able to focus on improving efficiency and productivity to reduce their reliance on labour, especially when this process improvement is aligned with leveraged tech strategies.
Whether your business has been thriving, plateauing or declining in 2022, now is the time to start planning for 2023 - NOW...not in February 2023 - so that you start putting the right strategies in place to take advantage of the opportunities that will emerge.
We will continue to produce resources on this topic that will help you to take 2023 and make it a year of unparalleled success. Make sure you subscribe to our regular updates to keep you abreast of new insights, trends, tools and programs to support you in your journey.
TIME TO THRIVE RESOURCES
Understand your Business and build a plan
If you are a small business owner or solopreneur the leverage your time and energy by using our Business Health Check process to give you a deeper understanding of the key issues and to help you build a clear plan to address them.
Understand your key issues
The first step in the planning process is to understand where you are NOW. A simple way to do this is to leverage our free Business Diagnostic Tools to understand the key issues impacting your business from a number of perspectives. There are 19 Diagnostics to choose from and you can do any or all of them - its your choice. If you only do one Diagnostic them my suggestion is that you do the Growth and Profit Diagnostic. Each diagnostic will ask you a series of simple questions and you will give your response a s a rating. There is no need to divulge commercially sensitive information and all assessments are confidential between yourself and Russ Cummings.
Time To Thrive Guide
This comprehensive guide will step you through the process of setting your business up to thrive in 2023. Use this in conjunction with our Time to Thrive Checklist (below).
Time To Thrive Guide
Use this checklist and the links to various resources (including the Time to Thrive Guide) to work through the process of working on your business for 2023.
Time To Thrive Recorded Webinar
Watch this insightful webinar on making the most of your business in 2023
Marketing for Growth
Subscribe to our 6-part Video series where we explore a range of marketing issues from basic concepts to product strategies, to pricing, to traditional marketing and digital marketing.
90 Day Contact Program
The One thing you MUST do to grow your business is establish a 90 DAY CONTACT PROGRAM.
Simple Sales Skills Course
Subscribe to our FREE 5-part Video training series focused on improving your sales skills using proven techniques and processes.